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Thehanoudiletter: Messages of Faith and Hope |
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Wednesday, 24 May 2006 |
I have been talking in these updates to the Hanoudiletter mainly about the current situation in Iraq, but I must admit that this topic is becoming an increasingly painful and extremely frustrating subject to talk about in spite of the arrival of the new government which was received with a reasonable degree of good will by the people after its very painful delivery. I feel very tired with a lot of medial problems, so for all these reasons I have decided to forget about the Iraqi mess this week and instead share with you four letters which I have received from two astonishingly fine human beings a man and a woman both of whom I have not known or heard from before. I have not asked each of them for their permission to include their letters in this update, I very sincerely apologize to both of them and hope that they understand my situation and beg for their forgiveness for my insolence. The following is first message, which I received from the lady on May 11, 2006 to which I responded with few words of thanks and gratefulness asking her not to stop her very nice massages.
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America and the world: Oil, Iran and Senator Biden's Plan |
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Tuesday, 09 May 2006 |
Our world is a turbulent and a very dangerous place, look at what is happening in Darfoor, a vast expanse of a very harsh desert a wasteland over which people were for the last three years waging a crazy senseless war and after two years of negotiations are still failing to reach a reasonable agreement to end it. Also remember Rwanda, Bosnia and Kosovo and don’t forget the Iraqi mess. For all of these tragedies the whole world has been to a big or a small extent involved, but no country has been so greatly embroiled in these terrible miseries and has been exposed to the dangers they pose to its interest and security as the United States of America. The Americans have been for a very long time after their independence happily isolated in their own continent and benignly neglecting what was happening elsewhere, but since the end of World War II this isolation been replaced by an increasingly active involvement in the affairs of the world outside its borders. This shift has mostly been due to its elevation to the position of the world’s only super power, but with the very serious commitment to the survival of Israel and because of its great need for strategically based military bases and its almost total dependence on oil (dependence on both foreign oil and oil reserves).
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The Iraqi Situation: President Talabani's Package |
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Monday, 01 May 2006 |
For more than four months, the failure of the new political leadership to create the three major institutions of the state, namely the three members presidential council, the speaker of the parliament and his two deputies and the selection of a candidate for the prime minister's job, was very suddenly but partially resolved by what was called by president Talibani a package. The package included all three and was delivered by the recently elected parliament in less than three hours. This achievement was received inside the country and by President Bush by an audible sigh of relief; it has rekindled the Iraqis’ hope that there was still some light at the end of the tunnel. President Bush is hoping that an improvement in the Iraqi mess will improve his deteriorating situation at home and the chances for a win for his party in next fall's midterm elections. President Bush described the package as historical, and very important for the security of the United States itself. For all these reasons I have decided to delay finishing my last week’s piece on the current violence in Iraq, which I have promised to do this week and talk instead about president Talabani's package.
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The Current Violence in Iraq: The Roots and the Anatomy |
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Tuesday, 18 April 2006 |
Four months after the last election, which resulted in the election of a four-year permanent parliament that was supposed to bring a new executive to start the urgent job of tackling the now very desperate situation in the country. The parliament itself has convened only once for the swearing in of its members. Today, after exactly four months there is still no government, which is leaving the country in a dangerous vacuum and fueling an already very lethal violence and threatening its development into a full blown civil war. Violence is an extremely complicated topic and the violence that is currently clenching Iraq following its invasion and occupation by the Americans in March 2003 is even more complicated, a reasonable discussion of it is impossible to cover in the limited space of one letter. Today, I am talking about the roots of the current violence in Iraq and the various groups which make up the physical structure of this phenomenon to be followed up in few days time by a second piece on the methods and objectives of this unholy alliance.
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